If you've ever said YIKES while reading your own writing or when thinking about sharing your stories with the world, this episode is for you. When you stop worrying so much about whether your writing sucks or not, you have a lot more time to actually improve it. I know, weird.

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Having a story idea is nice, but it's not a novel until you have a PLOT, too. In this episode, you find out what your story is actually about and how to come up with the events that your protagonist needs to go through.

It's a bit of a rambling episode, but hopefully you can follow along anyway! Stay tuned until the end to get your writing prompt of the week.

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Not all "writing tips" are created equal - and neither is commentary on said writing tips. In this episode, I'm diving into Instagram comments about useless advice, but we also talk about weird attitudes in the writing world.

SPOILERS for the Doctor Who episode The Well at 4:10 - 6:25.

Don't let the new episode title format fool you, this is still the same What If You Wrote podcast by Protagonist Crafts that you know and love. If you want to hear more advice that actually means something and get seriously inspired to write great stories, you'll want to stick around.

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